viii, 310 pages : 25 cm

Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesse the differences between men and women in relation to war

Includes index

Includes bibliographical references and index

Rewriting history / Joan W. Scott -- The double helix / Margaret R. Higonnet and Patrice L.-R. Higonnet -- The new Eve and the old Adam: French women's condition at the turn of the century / Michelle Perrot -- Rivers and Sassoon: the inscription of male gender anxieties / Elaine Showalter -- Vera Brittain's Testament(s) / Lynne Layton -- Growing up banished: a reading of Anne Frank and Ette Hillesum / Yasmine Ergas -- More Minerva than Mars: the French women's rights campaign and the First World War / Steven C. Hause -- Women's military services in the First World War Britain / Jenny Gould -- The German nation's obligation to the heroes' widows of world War I / Karin Hausen -- Redefining resistance: women's activism in wartime France / Paula Schwartz -- American women and the discourse of the democratic family in World War II / Sonya Michel -- American women and industrial unionism during world War II / Ruth Milkman -- Waiting for the captive sons of France: prisoner of war wives, 1940-1945 / Sarah Fishman -- Soldier's heart: literary men, literary women and the Great War / Sandra M. Gilbert -- "This is my rifle, this is my gun": World War II and the blitz on women / Susan Gubar -- Some peculiarities of social policy concerning women in wartime and postwar Britain / Denise Riley -- The liberation and new rights for French women / Jane Jenson -- German women's memories of World War II / Annemarie Tröger

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